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The Jamaica Plain Forum is a series of free community discussions, workshops and films on the great issues of our community, and our world. We feature local and national heroes. Sign up for event announcements on our website.

Website: http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org
Members: 32
Latest Activity: Jun 10

From the Jamaica Plain Forum Blog

Support the JP Forum, and see you in the fall!

[ Thursday, 30 December 2010; 5:00pm to 6:00pm. ] Hey there JP Forum members, We are closing up shop for the summer, in order to take stock of our last season and plan another great one for the fall of 2009! For now, you can sign up for our email announcements so that you can be the first to know of our fall line-up of events. See [...]

“Dismantling Monoculture” with the Beehive Collective

[ Friday, 26 June 2009; 7:00pm to 9:00pm. ] The Beehive Collective come to Jamaica Plain with their giant, portable murals that are used as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing! The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts” of personal stories, historical and policy narrative, and bottom-up resistance. In anticipation of the much-awaited "Globalization in the Western [...]

Common Security Clubs: Neighbors Coming Together to Prepare for Economic Change

[ Wednesday, 10 June 2009; 7:30pm to 9:00pm. ] Come learn about a mini-movement of "common security clubs," people coming together to increase their economic security. This J.P. Forum will be an overview of how the clubs work and an opportunity to join one or help start one in your neighborhood and community. These are uncertain times. The economic crisis has reminded us of our vulnerability: debt, [...]

Dean Baker: Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy

[ Thursday, 30 April 2009; 7:00pm to 9:00pm. ] Dean Baker was one of the economists who saw it coming as early as 2005. He warned about the housing bubble, lack of regulation and corruption at the root of the economic meltdown. Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC and the author of several books, including [...]

Early Spring: Talking to Your Kids About Climate Change

[ Friday, 15 May 2009; 7:00pm to 9:00pm. ] Ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family's walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont. She explores this changing landscape, and her family's relationship to it, [...]

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Comment by Joseph Porcelli (Founder/Editor) on February 17, 2009 at 10:24pm: Sarah! We are booking up quick. Are you gonna have a table at the expo?

Comment by Juliet-Community Change Catalyst on February 10, 2009 at 1:53pm: Hi there JP Forum! Excited to hear about the talk on the 17th at First Church - Kim Fellner - Wrestling with Starbucks: The Politics of Coffee
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Can you tell us more a little bit more about what Kim's background is? Thanks so much for creating events that bring the world to our doorstep.